On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Andrew Rist <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12/26/2011 2:40 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Rob Weir<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Dave Fisher<[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Dec 20, 2011, at 5:30 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >>>> >>>> The list has been created: >>>> [email protected].**org<[email protected]> >>>>> >>>>> You can subscribe by sending an email to: >>>>> ooo-announce-subscribe@**incubator.apache.org<[email protected]> >>>>> >>>>> Posts from apache.org email addresses will be moderated. All other >>>>> posts will be automatically rejected. >>>>> >>>>> We should promote this to the user lists and forums, as well as to >>>>> users via social media. A blog post? >>>>> >>>> As a comment on the current Foundation post? >>>> >>>> I meant a blog post on the availability of the announce list. (Surely >>> if we had the announce list already we would have had a post on the >>> start of the blog) >>> >>> Somehow we need to make people aware of the new list. The intended >>> audience would be users who find the existing mailing lists too >>> high-volume, It is good to have orthogonal ways of reaching out. If >>> we just reach out to the existing lists we're missing the very users >>> we're trying to reach. >>> >>> Assuming we could, would it make sense to send an "announcement" about >> the >> new list to the *old* *[email protected]? >> >> >> I think Marcus said messages to [email protected] were modesated by >> ???? but maybe we could push something through. >> > pen a message and I'll post it there. > Hi Andrew -- I just forward the message I received from Rob in total to " [email protected]". Got a return from SYMPA that the editors would look at it. If you or anyone else knows some magic to push this through, that would be great. The [email protected] has about 84000 users! Andrew > > >> * >> >> -Rob >>> >>> But it probably doesn't make sense to promote this until after the >>>>> >>>> holidays. >>> >>>> Maybe promotion is a good question for ooo-marketing? >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Dave >>>> >>> >> >> > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." -- Mohandas Gandhi
